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I have been questioned on two **substantive** points in supplementary questions. . - L’on m’a soumis des questions complémentaires relatives à deux points de **fond**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 713566) - Yet no **substantive** information could support that claim. Cependant, aucune information de **fond** n'a pu étayer cette allégation. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2922143) - (b) Other **substantive** activities (regular budget): b) Autres activités de **fond** (budget ordinaire) : ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23713264) - Mr Posselt, of course that was not a point of order but a **substantive** question. Monsieur Posselt, votre intervention ne portait naturellement pas sur une motion de procédure mais sur le **fond**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 122885) - WHEREAS the following **substantive** State aid provisions need revision \[10\]: CONSIDÉRANT que les règles de **fond** ci-après demandent à être révisées \[10\]: ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5630431) ## session Used about 1 768 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 768). - The 1997 **substantive** session of the Disarmament Commission was opened by the Chairman, H.E. Mr. Andelfo J. García (Colom-bia), who made a statement. The 1997 substantive **session** of the Disarmament Commission was opened by the Chairman, H.E. Mr. Andelfo J. García (Colom-bia), who made a statement. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4200765) ## questions Used about 33 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 33). - I expect us to communicate more quickly with the European Commission and the European Council on procedural and personal matters, and also on **substantive** matters. J'attends que nous communiquions plus rapidement avec la Commission européenne et le Conseil européen sur des **questions** procédurales et personnelles, et également sur des questions essentielles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1285499) - The directive does not take into account the final outcome of the relevant legislative process, which will owe more to differences in legal technicalities than to **substantive** issues. Cette directive ne tient pas compte du résultat final du processus législatif concerné, qui dépendra davantage de différences juridiques d'ordre technique que de **questions** matérielles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1076598) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In Esperanto, **substantives**, adjectives, adverbs and verbs show their function in a sentence through their ending. En espéranto, les substantifs, adjectifs, adverbes et verbes indiquent, par leurs terminaisons, leur fonction dans la phrase. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1115697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1115697) [\#547103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547103)) - Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these **substantives** which are fugitives from justice. L'idée refuse presque de se laisser exprimer par ces substantifs repris de justice. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21415) - You have also presented very detailed conclusions as to the number and nature of **substantive** errors in the Structural Funds. Par ailleurs, vous arrivez à des conclusions très détaillées sur le nombre et la composition des erreurs substantielles dans les fonds structurels. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912843) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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